villeinage
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The facts are all against them; these showing it a scheme of villeinage, more oppressive than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
It is noteworthy that some chose one alternative, some the other, not finding villeinage intolerable.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
The Suppression of the Revolt.—The boy-king met the mob at Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The second court was the "court customary," which dealt with cases connected with villeinage.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
For one thing, the poll-tax was stopped, and the end of villeinage was hastened.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Joseph Clayton
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